Operation Iron Swords - Day 193 - 16 April 2024

“At any point, Hamas could have ended this burgeoning tragedy to
surrender and release every hostage. …
Hamas instigated and owns this humanitarian catastrophe.”
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA)

Contents

UPDATED - True Promise IRvsIL NEW - War Termination NEW - Operations NEW - Operations - Gaza NEW - Operations - Judea-Samaria NEW - Operations - Lebanon NEW - Operations - Syria / Iraq NEW - Operations - Yemen UPDATED - Operations Maps NEW - By-Standers NEW - Axis of Resistance NEW - Allied for Democracy UPDATED - By the Numbers

The New York Times instructed journalists covering the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms “ genocide ” and “ ethnic cleansing ,” and to avoid using the phrase “occupied territories” when describing the Palestinian territories, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept. According to the site, the New York Times memo also directs journalists not to use the word Palestine except in very rare cases, and to stay away from the term “refugee camps” to describe the places to which Palestinians have historically been displaced within the Gaza Strip, who fled from other parts of Palestine during the previous Arab-Israeli wars.

It is noteworthy that the United Nations recognizes the areas to which Palestinians were displaced as camps housing hundreds of thousands of registered refugees. The memo, written by New York Times Standards Editor Susan Wesling, international editor Philip Ban, and others, provides guidance on some of the terms and other issues that have imposed themselves on the scene since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip last October. While the document is presented as a blueprint for maintaining journalistic principles of objectivity when dealing with the war on Gaza, several New York Times journalists told The Intercept that some of its contents provide evidence of the newspaper adopting the Israeli narrative.

The website quoted a source in the New York Times newsroom - who requested anonymity for fear of being held accountable - saying that the matter “seems professional and logical if you do not have knowledge of the historical context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but if you do know, it will be clear how much it identifies with the Israeli narrative.” The Intercept noted that the guidelines were first distributed to New York Times journalists last November, and were updated regularly over the following months.

On March 14, demonstrators supporting the Palestinian cause stormed the building of the New York Times newspaper in protest against its bias towards Israel in the ongoing war on the Gaza Strip. This is the second storming, as pro-Palestinian demonstrators had previously occupied the newspaper’s lobby on November 11, demanding an immediate cessation. Because of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, they accused the newspaper of bias towards Israel in its coverage of the war on the Gaza Strip.

War Termination

Operational Update

A news analysis published by the newspaper "Haaretz" stated that the Israeli leadership failed to correctly assess the enemy's intentions in the attacks it was subjected to from the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ) on the 7th of last October, and from Iran on the 13th of this April. The writer for the Israeli newspaper, Anshel Pfeffer, said in his analysis that Israel received the sympathy of the Western world on both occasions, but he warned that this sympathy would not last long, as any other error in judgment on the part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would have a much heavier price.

The writer added sarcastically that the only thing Israel needs to gain the West's sympathy is to be attacked, considering this a sad irony. He explained that Iran, by launching more than 300 drones and missiles last Saturday, gave Israel exactly what it wanted. One of the army generals - who did not reveal his identity - was quoted as saying, “The world has returned to stand by our side as it did on October 8. Let us wait to see how quickly we will squander that stance this time.”

He pointed out that the two attacks were preceded by a failure in Israel by the intelligence services and its leadership to correctly assess the enemy: before the first attack, the assessment was that the Hamas movement had been deterred, and was seeking to tighten its grip on the Gaza Strip instead of attacking Israel. In the second attack, there was a belief that Iran would adhere - according to Pfeiffer's analysis - to its decades-old policy of using its agents to attack Israel, instead of taking it directly upon itself. Because of this belief, Israel decided to bomb the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus at the beginning of this month, killing 7 senior leaders of the Revolutionary Guard .

According to Pfeiffer's analysis, the difference this time is that Israel had more time to reassess the situation and prepare its defenses before the attack, thanks to the great assistance provided to it by its "friend", US President Joe Biden. Another key difference is that while Israel must make its own decisions about how to respond to the Iranian attack, it now has a lot to lose, as it risks losing not only “international goodwill” but also an unprecedented level of military cooperation, he said.

According to the analysis, Netanyahu's calculations are more complex than the estimates of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and War Council member Benny Gantz , who believe that Israel should retaliate against the Iranian attack as a "unique strategic moment" that should not be wasted. However, Netanyahu fears, in the end, that the price of joining Biden's coalition against Iran will be the end of his ruling coalition based on a majority in the Knesset (Parliament), as Pfeiffer sees at the conclusion of his article.

Operational Update - Gaza

The Nahal TDF fighters continue their activity in the center of the Gaza Strip, during which the forces eliminated a number of terrorists they spotted moving towards them using tank fire. As part of the 215th Fire Brigade's combat effort, the forces directed Air Force aircraft that attacked and destroyed terrorist infrastructure. Throughout the last day, fighter jets and aircraft of the Air Force attacked and destroyed a missile launcher alongside dozens of terrorist infrastructures, tunnels and military buildings, including armed terrorists of the terrorist organization Hamas.

At dawn on Tuesday, the Israeli army suddenly entered the northern Gaza Strip into the areas east of Jabalia, north of the town of Beit Lahia, and east of the town of Beit Hanoun, amid heavy gunfire and artillery shelling. It also bombed a mosque and homes, besieged schools housing displaced people, arrested dozens of men and children, and forced women and girls to flee.

The head of the HAMAS government media office in the Gaza Strip, Salama Marouf, said that the Israeli occupation army is seeking to empty the town of Beit Hanoun and the eastern region of the town of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip , of their residents, through a military operation it is carrying out in the two regions. In a statement today, Tuesday, Marouf said, “In a new crime against our people, the occupation seeks to empty Beit Hanoun and the eastern region of Jabalia, north of Gaza, where the occupation army carried out a military operation last night, and its bulldozers and tanks advanced towards the shelter centers in Beit Hanoun, and a school was besieged.” Mahdia Shawa, where there are hundreds of displaced people.”

He added, "The occupation army established a field investigation center behind the school, and asked everyone to leave at gunpoint. The women were forced to remove the hijab, and the men were stripped of their outer clothing." He pointed out that the Israeli army forced all the families in Beit Hanoun to leave, and a number of young men were arrested, considering this “a new crime that was committed under the cover of violent artillery shelling, bombardment by warplanes, and heavy gunfire, and military vehicles are still present to this moment near the area.” Abu Safiya, east of the towns of Jabalia and Beit Hanoun.”

He continued, "The occupation army was not satisfied with the hundreds of massacres it committed in these areas, completely destroying the homes of citizens there, and forcing their people to flee from them for many months. Today, it is repeating the scenario of forcibly displacing its residents by force of arms, after they returned during the past weeks and worked to restore life in The rest of it.” Marouf called on the international community to “put an end to this new crime of persecuting our people and displacing them from their places of residence,” pointing out that the Palestinians are “on their land and insist on remaining there under inhumane conditions after the demolition of homes and the lack of infrastructure and services.”

The Al Jazeera expert, Colonel Hatem Al-Falahi, said that the operation launched by the occupation in the center of the Gaza Strip is still limited, noting that the forces are forcibly displacing the residents of the region by arresting them and deporting them to other areas. Al-Falahi explained - in an analysis on Al Jazeera - that the occupation practices a policy of annihilating land by entering a small area, then moving to another area, instead of launching large-scale operations, as happened in the north and Khan Yunis.

Regarding the continuous air and artillery bombardment on the center of the Gaza Strip, Al-Falahi said that it is natural support for the forces operating on the ground, especially if there is information indicating the presence of resistance fighters in the place. He pointed out that the occupation entered its current operation in the center into areas that it had not previously entered in the hope of destroying two resistance battalions, which he said he had information about in the central sector, and also in order to secure the “Nahal” Brigade located in the Netzarim axis, which connects the east and west of the sector.

In Beit Hanoun, the occupation is trying to arrest the largest number of residents to collect information about the resistance leaders, fighters, prisoners, or the tunnel network , as it did in Al-Shifa Hospital when it arrested more than 800 civilians and subjected them to investigation. In addition, these arrests are used to carry out forced displacement, because those who are arrested do not return to their areas, but are released in other distant places, according to Al-Falahi.

Damage to the Strip is estimated at $18.5 billion - 97 per cent of the total economy of Gaza and West Bank. More than 70 per cent of this estimate is to replace housing, while another 19 per cent is the cost of civilian infrastructure, including water and sanitation, power and roads. Such "systematic and widespread destruction" is a crime against humanity, insisted the experts - who are not UN staff and receive no salary for their work - before pointing to "numerous war crimes and acts of genocide", alleged by Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory in her report to the Human Rights Council. "With Israeli public officials joining calls for Palestinians to leave Gaza, to 'take back Gaza' to build settlements again, and ostensible enthusiasm expressed by prominent former US government officials for 'Gaza beachfront' properties, there is little doubt that Israel's intent goes far beyond the purposes of military defeat of Hamas", the experts maintained.

Albanese said that Palestinian society is facing genocide, denouncing double standards in Europe regarding the Palestinian issue. Albanese stressed the need to confront what Israel is doing against the Palestinians, especially in the Gaza Strip , noting that Israel has committed at least three genocide crimes in the besieged Strip. The UN rapporteur said that Israel killed more than 14,500 children in Gaza, and is killing more than 250 Palestinians on a daily basis.

Albanese said that the Israeli leadership and its soldiers were distorting the principles of international law to legitimize violence. She pointed out that Israeli leaders play with words and use terms such as “human shields” and “safe areas” to justify their violations of human rights and international law. The UN rapporteur also called for banning the export of weapons to Israel and imposing economic sanctions on it. She explained that Israel must be forced to comply with international law and the UN Charter, stressing that no measures had been taken against Israel for committing war crimes over the years.

Operational Update - Judea-Samaria

The soldiers of the IDF, the Shin Bet and the Security Guard operated tonight to arrest 23 wanted persons throughout Judea and Samaria. In Jenin, in Menasha, the fighters arrested five wanted persons and confiscated terrorist funds. The IDF forces and the security forces in the Ephraim Brigade began a several-day operation in the area of the Seam. Tonight, four wanted men were arrested in the village of Habola, along with a confiscated M4 rifle. In the city of Kalkilia, in the division of the brigade, the forces arrested another wanted man.

In Hebron in Judea, the forces arrested seven wanted persons and in Dora, in the division of the brigade, terrorist funds were confiscated. Four more wanted persons were arrested in Deisha in Shevitzion. In Kalandia in Benjamin, the fighters arrested a wanted person and in Kfar Akev another wanted person was arrested. In Azaim, in the division of the brigade, an airsoft type weapon was found. The wanted persons were arrested and the confiscated means of warfare were transferred to the security forces for further treatment, there are no casualties to Israeli forces.

Two Palestinians were killed by settlers' bullets, hours after a Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli occupation forces' bullets in Nablus , West Bank , at a time when the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ) called for "escalating popular anger and activating all forms of resistance to deter settlers from their crimes." Al Jazeera's correspondent reported the death of two Palestinians who were injured by settlers' bullets in Khirbet al-Tawil, east of the town of Aqraba, south of Nablus. The Israeli occupation forces prevented Palestinian ambulance teams from reaching them, and detained their bodies.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the death of a young man and the injury of two others, one of whom was critically injured, during the Israeli occupation forces’ storming of the city of Nablus. Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that clashes broke out between Palestinian resistance fighters and the occupation forces after an Israeli special force infiltrated a residential building on "Al-Marij" Street in the center of Nablus. For its part, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported that a Palestinian was injured by occupation bullets during their storming of the village of Burqa in the Nablus district.

According to Palestinian government media, 9 citizens were injured in settler attacks concentrated in the governorates of Qalqilya and Salfit (north) and Hebron and Bethlehem (south). In the northern West Bank, Palestinian television reported that the Israeli occupation army wounded a young man and arrested him in the village of Baqat al-Hatab, east of Qalqilya. For its part, the official Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) said that 5 citizens were injured and bruised on Monday evening in an attack carried out by colonists on the town of Burqin, west of Salfit. It added that a group of settlers from the Brokhin settlement, which was violently established on citizens’ lands, under the protection of Israeli occupation soldiers, attacked citizens’ homes, vehicles, and commercial stores and threw stones at them, causing injury to family members of citizen Yasser Shafiq Abdullah, who were transferred to Salfit Governmental Hospital.

Wafa said that settlers attacked the village of Sha'ab al-Butm in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the south of the West Bank. She added, "Armed colonists from the Avigal and Mitzpe Yair colonies, protected by occupation soldiers, attacked citizens' homes in the village and burned a vehicle." In the city of Bethlehem, the agency reported that a number of colonists attacked a vehicle with stones near the Gush Etzion colony complex (south of the city), resulting in two citizens being injured and bruised, who were subsequently transported to the hospital, in addition to damage to the vehicle.

Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Dura, south of Hebron in the West Bank. Recently, armed settlers escalated their attacks on Palestinians in an unprecedented manner in a number of villages in the West Bank. According to data from the Palestinian Ministry of Health, 7 citizens were martyred by the bullets of the occupation forces and settlers in the West Bank, a prisoner was martyred in the occupation prisons, and more than 75 citizens were injured, and the majority of the injuries were caused by bullets of the occupation forces and settlers, including 14 who were seriously injured since dawn last Friday.

For its part, the US State Department condemned the killing of two Palestinian youth and an Israeli boy in the recent violence in the West Bank, and called on the Israeli and Palestinian authorities to do what they must and confront what they described as acts of violence. US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller also expressed his country's concern that the Israeli police and army are not doing what is necessary to prevent settler violence.

For its part, Hamas called for "escalating popular anger and activating all forms of resistance to deter settlers from their crimes in the West Bank." The movement said - in a statement - that “the settler militias’ persistence in their attacks on villages and towns in the West Bank, which today resulted in the death of two young men and the injury of a number of other citizens as a result of a new barbaric attack on Khirbet al-Tawil, east of the town of Aqraba, southeast of Nablus, is a continuation of the series of crimes that It is sponsored by the Nazi occupation government and its criminal leaders who are inciting the blood and resources of our people.”

Hamas stressed that "this blood will not be in vain, but will spark revenge and fire that will burn the occupation and its herds of settlers. The steadfastness and determination of our people will not be deterred by the massacres or the brutality of the occupation, whose attempts to suppress the resistance in the West Bank have failed."

On the other hand, the Israeli army announced that its drone had fallen in the occupied West Bank. The army said - in a brief statement published on its account on the X platform - “Earlier today (Monday) a remotely piloted aircraft fell near the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank.” It explained that the drone that fell was a Skyrider. The army statement did not reveal the cause of the plane crash and whether it had recovered its wreckage or not, but it said that it had opened an investigation into the accident and there was no fear of information being leaked as a result. The "Skyraider" is a small drone used by the Israeli army for spying, sweeping, and intelligence gathering missions. During the past years, incidents of this drone crashing repeatedly occurred, to the point that the Israeli army was forced to freeze work on it in 2017 due to many technical errors in its manufacture, before resuming work on it later.

Operational Update - Lebanon

Since last October 8, Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged cross-border bombing on an almost daily basis. Hezbollah announces the targeting of Israeli sites, spy devices and military gatherings in support of the Gaza Strip and support for its resistance. The Israeli army responds with air and artillery bombardment, which it says targets the party's "infrastructure" and the movements of fighters near the border.

The IDF attacked and eliminated, using an Air Force aircraft, in the Kfar Donin area, the terrorist Muhammad Hossein Matzafa Shouri, the commander of the rocket and missile unit of the western sector in Hezbollah's Radwan unit. Hasin was responsible for the planning and execution of many rocket firing plans towards the Israeli rear. As part of his position, he was involved in the promotion and planning of rocket and missile launches towards the State of Israel from the area of the central and western sector in Lebanon. Mahmoud Ibrahim Fadlallah, an operative in Hezbollah's rocket and missile unit, was also killed in the attack.

Air Force aircraft attacked military buildings and terrorist operatives of Hezbollah in the areas of Ein Baal, Alma al-Sha'ab, Hanin and Yaron. During the day, a number of launches were detected that crossed the territory of Lebanon towards several areas in the north of the country, there were no casualties. IDF forces attacked the sources of the shooting.

The IDF attacked and eliminated the terrorist Ismail Yosef Baz, the commander of the coastal sector of the terrorist organization, using an Air Force aircraft in the Ein Baal area in Lebanon. Ismail served as a senior and veteran official in the military wing of Hezbollah in several positions. His current rank is equivalent to the rank of brigadier general. As part of his position, he was involved in promoting and planning the launching of rockets and anti-tank missiles towards the State of Israel from the coastal area in Lebanon. Also, during the war, he organized and planned various terrorist plots against Israel.

Israeli warplanes launched an attack on a building in southern Lebanon that the army said was a Hezbollah military building , hours after 4 soldiers from the Golani Brigade were injured during their infiltration into the Lebanese border. The Israeli army explained - in a statement - that its warplanes bombed "a military building in the Mays al-Jabal area in which there were saboteurs from the Hezbollah organization." It added, "In addition, warplanes bombed another military building for the organization in the Tayr Harfa area in southern Lebanon."

The statement indicated that "earlier yesterday, Monday, an IDF force fired artillery fire to eliminate a threat in the Shebaa area." Israeli aircraft also launched 11 raids on the vicinity of the towns of Hula and Majdal Zoun, and on the towns of Tayr Harfa, Al-Dhahira, Seddiqin, and the Labouneh area.

On the other hand, Hezbollah announced the implementation of 5 operations against the Israeli army, and said that it targeted two gatherings of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Mitat barracks and Horsh Hanita, and twice bombed the radar site and its spy devices in the Shebaa Farms and the Ruwaisat al-Alam site in the occupied Kfar Shuba hills. The Israeli army said that it monitored the launching of 5 missiles from Lebanon into the Western Galilee, which fell in open areas before it responded to the source of the launch.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military spokesman said that the army is conducting maneuvers in Central Galilee and Upper Galilee today, Tuesday, as part of its preparations to confront threats from various fronts. The Israeli army had announced earlier on Monday that 4 soldiers from the Golani Brigade were injured, one of them in serious condition, as a result of the explosion of an explosive device planted in the ground during their infiltration into the Lebanese border.

Operational Update - Syria / Iraq

Operational Update - Yemen

Maps

All maps are lies. “Not only is it easy to lie with maps, it is essential,” wrote cartographer Mark Monmoneir in his book How to Lie with Maps. He showed that condensing complex, three-dimensional spaces onto a two-dimensional sheet of paper [in old days] is bound to be reductive. But it is impossible to comprehend the war in Gaza without reference to maps, otherwise the entire conflict is reduced to an endless series of meaningless acts of random violence and the suffering of civilians. The first characteristic of guerrilla warfare is the loss of a front line. Evidently, different mappers have different ideas of how to depict the war in Gaza, notably those that seek to depict Israeli progress in the ground campaign. Part of the problem is latency. The news that forms the basis of the maps takes time to filter out to mappers, and the cartographers take time in crafting their maps, and it takes time to curate them. These processes are uneven among mappers, so their maps may differ in detail. Probably there is some ideological bias, or at least thematic apperception, which is understandable in wartime. It may come as no surprise that al-Jazeera maps depict rather less Israeli territorial progress than other sources. Finally, there remains the epistemological question of just exactly what are the colored in areas depicting. Naively, this might be understood as areas of Israeli control, that are no longer contested by the HAMAS. Or possibly these are areas of Israeli presence, in many of which the possibility of an RPG-wielding HAMAS militant popping out of a tunnel unexpectedly remains a live possibility. With the "zero-range" combat characterized by small unit tactics on both sides, maps may be prey to a fallacy of misplaced concreteness.

Bystanders

Axis of Resistance

Allied for Democracy

Wall Street Journal quoted Israeli sources as saying that the leaders of the three Israeli war council do not trust each other and their relationship is governed by grudges and disagreements, which affects the main issues of the war. The newspaper said that the differences between the leaders of the War Council - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , Defense Minister Yoav Galant and former army chief Benny Gantz - over power are expected to affect the Israeli decision after the Iranian attack. It explained that the three leaders disagree on how to respond to Iran's first direct attack on Israel, which will determine whether the war on Gaza will turn into a larger regional battle with Tehran and shape Israel's relations with the United States for decades.

Israeli sources indicated that the nature of the relationship between the three men increases the risk of “misjudging the situation” regarding the Iranian-Israeli conflict, according to the newspaper. The newspaper, quoting former Israeli National Security Advisor Giora Eiland, confirmed that the lack of trust between the three leaders is very clear, amid attempts by Galant and Gantz to exclude Netanyahu from decisions and Netanyahu’s insistence on directing the war himself. Israeli officials also told the newspaper that Netanyahu did not inform Gallant and Gantz about his decisions regarding the main files in the negotiations, the entry of aid into Gaza, and military operations in the Strip. The officials said that the Israeli Prime Minister wanted to appoint a humanitarian aid official in Gaza who would report directly to his office, bypassing the Defense Minister.

The differences between the leaders of the Israeli War Council appear in their different opinions about launching an attack on the city of Rafah, which is crowded with displaced people in the southern Gaza Strip. While Netanyahu said that he had set a date for the start of the attack on Rafah, Gallant refused to proceed with the operation without reaching an agreement on it with the US administration, which wants clear plans to protect civilians, according to informed sources quoted by the newspaper.

Netanyahu, Gallant, and Gantz also disagree about the post-war phase in Gaza, as the Israeli Prime Minister wants the Palestinian Authority to have a future role in Gaza, and for the army to cooperate with the tribal leaders there, while the other two members of the war council reject this. Israeli officials told the newspaper that Gallant confirmed during the War Council meetings that he preferred “chaos in Gaza” to Israeli soldiers ruling the Gaza Strip in the future.

Regarding the negotiations, the newspaper confirmed that the three Israeli leaders do not agree on how to free the detainees and reach an agreement. While Netanyahu controls the negotiating team and its powers and is strict with his conditions, Gantz demands an immediate exchange agreement to preserve the lives of the detainees, and Gallant stresses that continued military pressure will lead to their release.

A poll published by the American CBS network on Monday showed an increasing number of Americans who want President Joe Biden to urge Israel to stop its military operations in the Gaza Strip , amid a decline in support for Biden’s handling of the war, while demonstrations in support of Gaza took place in American cities. The percentage of Americans who want to stop the war in Gaza rose to 37% after it was 31% last February in another poll conducted by CBS. According to the results of the poll, the percentage of Americans’ support for the way the US President dealt with the Israeli war on Gaza decreased to 33%, after it was 44% last October.

The poll also showed an increase in the percentage of Democrats who sympathize with the Palestinian people to 46% from 39% last October, amid a decline in their sympathy for the Israelis to 32% from 44%. The poll found that a smaller number of Democrats and independents believe it is necessary for the United States to send weapons and supplies to Israel, as only 40% said that Washington should send weapons to Tel Aviv, while this opinion still enjoys support among Republicans. On the other hand, the percentage of Americans demanding an increase in sending humanitarian aid to Gaza rose to 63% from 57% last October.

Meanwhile, demonstrators across the United States closed streets and malls, demanding an end to the war in the Gaza Strip, in coordinated demonstrations during “Tax Day” on Monday. The New York Times reported that the demonstrators wanted to disrupt the economy in order to pressure world leaders to achieve a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

This comes as Biden faces pressure from members of his party to change US policy towards Israel with the growing humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, amid warnings from Democrats that his way of dealing with the continuation of the war will affect his chances for a second term during the upcoming presidential elections. The US President said last week that he believes that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policy in Gaza is “wrong,” and called on Israel to cease fire, but later during the week he affirmed his firm support for Tel Aviv after the Iranian response to the targeting of its consulate in Damascus at the beginning of this month.

Operation Iron Swords - By the Numbers

• 1,900,000 IDPs in Gaza
• 76,465 Gazans injured, 28% adult male
• 70,000 tons of explosives dropped on Gaza
• 70,000 housing units completely destroyed
• 70,000 Israeli IDPs from Lebanon border
• 45,000 bombs dropped in Gaza
• 43,000 Gazans killed, including buried under rubble
• 33,000 Gaza targets attacked
• 33,797 Gazans martyred
• 20,528 Palestinians in Israeli prisons [Haaretz, 20 Mar 2024]
• 15,140 Israelis injured [i24 TV]
• 15,000 rockets launched from Gaza
• 14,520 Gazan children martyred
• 13,000 HAMAS combatants killed [N12]
• 13,000 HAMAS combatants killed [IDF]
• 11,000 arrested by Israelis in the West Bank in 2023
• 10,000 Gazans missing under the rubble
• 9,920 Gazan women martyred
• 9,000 Palestinians in Israeli prisons
• 9,000 IDF needing psychological assistance
• 8,365 arrested by Israelis in the West Bank since Oct.7th
• 6,800 IDF officers and soldiers injured [Channel 12]
• 6,000 HAMAS combatants killed [HAMAS]
• 5,500 IDF wounded [reports]
• 4,800 West Bank Palestinians wounded
• 4,700 sites targetted in Lebanon
• 3,484 administrative detainees
• 3,700 wanted persons arrested throughout Judea and Samaria
• 3,188 IDF wounded [IDF]
• 2,100 Gazan women are missing
• 1,609 terrorists killed on the first day
• 1,600 wanted persons arrested throughout Judea and Samaria affiliated with Hamas
• 1,160 Israelis killed on the first day
• 604 Israeli officers and soldiers killed since the start of the war
• 468 West Bank Palestinians martyred
• 364 people [including fighters] killed in Lebanon
• 260 Israeli officers and soldiers killed in Gaza
• 240 Hezbollah fighters killed in Lebanon
• 126 people recovered, including 91 Israelis, 11 bodies, and 24 foreign workers
• 116 living hostages in Palestinian custody
• 70 civilians killed in Lebanon
• 29 IDF deaths were caused by "friendly fire"
• 15 Israelis killed in the West Bank and Israel

Not every number is reported every day, so sudden jumps generally reflect reporting artifacts rather than actual upticks. Many of these numbers fluctate, up and down, with no apparent explanation. This list records the highest number reliably reported for each matter, under the theory that reality with catch up with reports, as is relentlessly the case.